Post #4 Adapting Safe Haven

I think the challenges of making the novel Safe Haven into a movie would have to be the characters personalities and insecurities. The settings of the novel would be pretty easy to capture because they are all almost the same and pretty basic settings. The hardest thing to capture with Katie would be her constant fear and worry, like she always has to be looking over her shoulder. She has a very closed off personality also, in the beginning. Also, I think the scene of the festival would be hard to capture because it’s very crowded and they are all having fun but Katie has this constant feeling of being watched and I think that would be a hard emotion to capture. The plot of the story might be hard because of how it constantly goes back and forth from the past to the present with “Erin” and Kevin’s relationship. It has to be done really well so everyone knows and can distinct the difference. I really don’t like how they changed the appearance of the characters in the novel in the movie because the ways the characters are described have crucial meaning behind it, especially the color of Katie’s hair. It’s supposed to be brown because she dyed it and cut it so she wouldn’t look like “Erin” her true self, so Kevin can’t find her, but in the movie they keep it blonde? Also Alex is supposed to have gray hair in the movie but he doesn’t, it shows the troubles he has had to go through in his past to create the life he has made for himself and his kids.

The three main scenes you have to keep in this novel would be the story telling about Kevin and Katie’s past, when Katie and Alex fall in love, and the big fight with Kevin and Katie where he burns the house and Katie has to save the kids and at the end she ends up killing Kevin. Those are very crucial to the book because that is basically the three scenes the book is based off of. I hate the fact that they cut out in the movie how Kevin almost found Katie right after she left, it shows how afraid she really has to be and why she has that reason to be afraid and careful.

If I could cut out two scenes to make the book better adapted into a movie, I would cut out the scene where it is solely based on Katie fixing up the house, it honestly isn’t that important of a scene. I would also cut out some of the scenes where Katie walks to the store, not all of those scenes where crucial to the story line, only some were. I wouldn’t cut out any side characters because none were mentioned except for the ones that play a role in how they got to where they are and those are crucial to the story or else it wouldn’t end how it was suppose too.  

post # 3 Book Project One

     What we are offering here is the one in a lifetime chance to experience the world within the famous Nicholas Spark novels. Starting in New Bern, North Carolina we would travel for a total of 16 days to each location in all the Nicholas Spark Novels. We will be starting at the famous house of Allie and Noah, based off of the novel The Notebook and the novel The Wedding, involving Allie and Noah’s daughter Jane’s life. We will be staying a total of 2 days in each location, with a total of 8 locations, so you can explore the settings from the novels and look at all the landmarks that Sparks has mentioned in his novels. Our most famous spot is the new museum we created within the home of Noah and Allie! It’s a fun and exciting adventure that no Nicholas Spark fan would want to miss!

  In the novel The wedding, Jane and Wilson are having marriage issues; their love is drifting away. Wilson realizes what is happening and gets set on track to rekindle the love they once held so dearly. This two week tour applies to Sparks’ novel because its main focus point is Noah and Allies house where Wilson and Jane’s daughter, Anna, “had planned to get married”. It was chosen to make this a museum the only “big monument” in the tour because the wedding is basically the main focus of the whole book. The beginning of the book is Wilson talking about how he needs to find a way to get Jane to fall in love with him again, and that's when he plans to surprise Jane with the wedding she never had. Also, the wedding is at Noah and Allies home, that is why we chose to have it because it will be an exact replica from the books (also The Notebook). “ ‘Jane?’ I said. / ‘Mmm?’ she answered automatically. / ‘I have an idea.’ / ‘About what?’ She continued staring at the page. / ‘Where we should hold the wedding.’ / My words finally registered and she looked up. ‘It might not be perfect, but I’m sure it would be available,’ I said. ‘ It’s outside and there’s plenty of parking. And there’re flowers, too. Thousands of flowers.’ ‘Where?’ / I hesitated. / ‘At Noah’s house,’ I said. ‘Under all the trellis by the roses.’ Jane’s mouth opened and closed; she blinked rapidly, as if clearing her sight. But then, ever so slowly, she began to smile” (Sparks 89). This is a really good demonstration of how much the house means to them. It is a beautiful house that has been in Jane’s family for a long time and it is where Wilson realized he was in love with Jane.You can tell by Jane's reaction at the end of the quote that she was surprised by the idea but it always meant a lot to her by how the scene was described with her smiling slowly, that means that she was extremely pleased by the idea and that it would mean a lot to her. “ ‘I love you, Jane, and I’m the luckiest man in the world to have you.’ Though she didn’t say a word, the way she leaned further against me was all the response I needed” (195). This is a part in the novel , The Wedding, where it is a two days before the wedding and it’s the first time in a couple years that he has expressed his feelings to her. He realized as his daughter, Anna , told Noah about the wedding that he couldn’t have been more proud of the life he has lived and how lucky he is to have it all. You can tell as the wedding gets closer so do Jane and Wilson.

      Wilson all along has planned for this wedding, he got his whole family involved. Anna was suppose to say that she was getting married, but really it was a surprise wedding for Jane and Wilson, the wedding she never had. Wilson became a changed man who cherished every second he had with his wife and family. “ I hold right to the lessons that Noah taught me about love and keeping it alive, and even if I never become a true romantic like Noah, it doesn't mean that I’m ever going to stop trying” (263). Wilson learned that you have to constantly show your love to keep it alive, he achieved something many others struggle to do, to keep love alive.

     This idea will be a great one because there are so many Nicholas Spark fans out there and all of his stories take place within hours of each other, it will be an easy journey to travel to all the settings and towns from the book. It will help all the audiences of the books because they will be able to physically get the experiences from the book themselves because they can place themselves in the atmospheres in which the books took place. It will help you stay connected because there will be many more tours and attractions added as Sparks releases more novels. 

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